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Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session 



House Document No. 1861 



WILLIAM P. BORLAND 

(Late a Representative from Missouri) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

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OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 
THIRD SESSION 

March 2, 1919 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 

Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Gouden, D, D 5, 9 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Clement C. Dickinson, of Missouri 11 

Mr. Perl D. Decker, of Missouri .- 14 

Mr. William H. Stafford, of Wisconsin 18 

Mr. Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming 20 

Mr. J. Charles Linthicum, of Maryland 23 

Mr. James W. Good, of Iowa 25 

Mr. Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma 28 

Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri 30 

Mr. Courtney W. Hamlin, of Missouri 34 

Mr. Joseph W. Byrns, of Tennessee 36 

Mr. Leonidas C. Dyer, of Missouri 39 

Mr. William L. Igoe, of Missouri 40 

Proceedings in the Senate 43 



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HON. WILLIAM P.BOHLAN: 



DEATH OF HON. WILLIAM P. BORLAND 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 



Saturday, February 22, 1919. 

The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer : 

Eternal and everliving God, our Heavenly Father, we 
bless Thee for that spirit of patriotism and profound 
gratitude which moves the people throughout our Nation, 
yea, throughout the world, to hold in sacred memory the 
birth of him whom we delight to call the Father of his 
Country. 

We thank Thee for the mentality which enabled him to 
grasp and solve great problems; for the divination which 
enabled him to penetrate the future and predict results; 
for the splendid personality which enabled him to com- 
mand men and lead them to victory; for the fervor of his 
religious convictions which enabled him to rely upon Thee 
for strength and support and which brought him to his 
knees at Valley Forge— the darkest hour in that struggle 
for liberty, right, and justice. 

Long may his memory live in the hearts of his country- 
men and longer yet his deeds inspire men to truer, nobler 

life. 

We are shocked by the news from oversea, that a Mem- 
ber of this House, ever active and conspicuous for his 
work, has passed to the beyond. Comfort his friends and 
admirers, his bereaved wife, and those to whom he was 
near and dear with the blessed hope of the immortality 
of the soul through Him who died and rose again. Amen. 

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Memorial Addresses: Representative Borland 

Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, it becomes my sad duty to an- 
nounce to the House the death of our late colleague, the 
Hon. William P. Borland, a Representative from the State 
of Missouri. Mr. Borland died on February 20, 1919, day 
before yesterday, at base hospital No. 301, at Coblenz, 
Germany. 

At a later date I v^ill ask the House to set aside a day 
for tribute to the life and distinguished public services 
of my colleague. For the present I offer the following 
resolution. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

House resolution 601 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. William P. Borland, a Representative from the 
State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 20 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

The resolution was agreed to; and the Speaker an- 
nounced as the committee on the part of the House Mr. 
Romjue, Mr. Rucker, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Booher, Mr. Dick- 
inson, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Shackleford, Mr. Essen, Mr. Igoe, 
Mr. Dyer, Mr. Hensley, Mr. Russell, Mr. Decker, Mr. Rubey, 
Mr. Sherley, Mr. Mondell, Mr. Little, Mr. Good, Mr. An- 
thony, and Mr. Campbell of Kansas. 

Mr. Rucker. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
the Speaker of the House may be added to the committee. 

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The Speaker. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
mous consent that the Speaker of the House be added to 
the committee. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Mr. RucKER. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 
15 minutes p. m.) the House, under the order heretofore 
adopted, adjourned until Sunday, February 23, 1919, at 11 
o'clock a. m. 

Wednesday, February 26, 1919. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

Senate resolution 468 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
announcement of the death of Hon. William P. Borland, late a 
Representative from the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 10 Senators be appointed by the 
Vice President, to join such committee as may be appointed on the 
part of the House of Representatives, to attend the funeral of the 
deceased. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

Friday, February 28, 1919. 
Mr. Alexander. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that it may be in order on Sunday, March 2, between the 
hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, to deliver memorial addresses 
on the life, character, and public services of our deceased 
colleague. Hon. William P. Borland. 

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The Speaker. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
mous consent that there shall be a meeting of the House 
on Sunday, March 2, at 11 o'clock a. m., and that the time 
from 11 to 12 o'clock be set aside for the delivery of 
memorial addresses on the life, character, and public 
services of the late William P. Borland, a Representative 
from Missouri. Is there objection? 

Mr. Garner. Had not the gentleman better make that 
from 10 o'clock to 11 ? Would it not be just as convenient? 

Mr. Alexander. I doubt if it would be as convenient. 

Mr. Garner. That difference of one hour on Sunday 
would mean a good deal. 

Mr. Stafford. I assume that the gentleman would have 
no objection to providing that it would not interfere with 
conference reports, so that there would be an hour for 
these exercises on that day at that time? 

Mr. Alexander. No; we realize the condition, and we 
do not want to interfere, but our plans are already made. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
mous consent that on Sunday, the 2d of March, there be a 
meeting of the House at 11 o'clock a. m., and that the time 
from 11 to 12 be set aside for the delivery of memorial 
addresses on the life, character, and public services of the 
late William P. Borland. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Sunday, March 2, 1919. 
The recess having expired, the House was called to order 
by the Speaker at 11 o'clock a. m. 
The Speaker. The Chaplain will lead in prayer. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer : 

Infinite Spirit, Father of all souls, with unbounded faith 
in the overruling of Thy providence for the final good of 



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all mankind, we humbly and reverently bow in Thy holy 
presence and pray for that love which casteth out fear. 
Increase our love for Thee and for our fellow men, that 
when death comes to our dear ones our grief may be 
assuaged by a perfect trust in Thee. 

We meet here to-day to record on the pages of history 
the life, character, and public service of a Member of this 
House who passed from the scenes of this life far from 
home and native land— a scholar, a teacher, a professor, a 
president of a college, a writer, a statesman. Be graciously 
near to those who knew and loved him, especially to his 
bereaved wife. Comfort and sustain her in the blessed 
hope of the life everlasting. 

Faith is the rainbow's form 

Hung on the brow of heaven, 
The glory of the passing storm, 

The pledge of mercy given; 
It is a bright, triumphant arch, 
Through which the saints to glory march. 



Hear us in His name. Amen. 



Mr. Dickinson. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following reso- 
lutions, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. 
The Clerk read as follows : 

House resolution 621 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
William P. Borland, late a Member of this House from the State 

of Missouri. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished pubhc 
career, the House, at the conclusion of the proceedings of this 
day, do stand adjourned. 



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Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
family of the deceased. 

The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
tions. 

The resolutions were agreed to. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Dickinson, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: The news of the death of William P. 
Borland came as a distinct shock to all of the Members 
of the House. He had gone about the 1st of January 
on a trip to France, and was taken ill while on his way 
to Coblenz, on German soil. He contracted a cold, which 
resulted in pneumonia, and, finall5% in his death, about 
the 20th of February. 

I knew William P. Borland intimately. His friendship 
I enjoyed and appreciated. He came to Congress and 
entered upon his services here on the 4th of March, 1909. 
He served 10 consecutive years in this body, the longest 
period of service of any Representative from Kansas 
City, which place he represented with such distinguished 
ability. That city is said to be the Cape Hatteras of 
American politics, and changes its Congressmen wdth 
unusual rapidity. It is notable that this courageous Rep- 
resentative stayed so long in Congress from this great 
Kansas City district. Mr. Borland was comparatively a 
young man. He had barely passed the half-century mark, 
being nearly 51^ years old. 

The hand of the reaper 

Takes the ears that are hoary, 
But the voice of the weeper 

Wails manhood in glory. 

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He was a graduate of law at the University of Michi- 
gan and commenced the practice of law in Kansas City, 
which was not the home of his birth. He was born at 
Leavenworth, Kans. He finally moved to Kansas City, 
which remained his home until his death. 

He organized a school of law in that city and was the 
dean of that school. He wrote one or more law books, a 
textbook on wills and administration. 

He entered political life comparatively early and was 
in the public eye up to the time of his death. He was a 
public-spirited man, a man of courage and strong convic- 
tions, and battled for his ideals. He hunted for the right. 
He did not feel the pulse of the public to learn whether 
what he did was popular but acted always from the impulse 
of what he believed to be right. He felt that his career as a 
Representative in Congress might end quickly and that he 
would be retired, because he was not allied to any great 
political organization in his city, and he came repeatedly 
to Congress, fearlessly asserting the right, and as a strong 
Representative of a great city and district — tied to the 
chariot wheels of no organization — he repeatedly came 
because he was the popular choice of this great district. 
Mr. Borland was an easy and ready public speaker, and 
took an active part in this House, was active in debate, a 
hard student, well informed, and handled his subjects 
with unusual ability. By reason of his public services he 
attained State and national reputation. His name was 
always before the public because of his activities as an 
industrious public servant. He was a member of the Ap- 
propriations Committee, where he rendered active and 
efficient service. He was vigorous mentally and physi- 
cally, and bore evidence of a long and active life. 

It was a great shock when we learned of his passing 
away. His anxiety to see and learn by personal contact 
what was going on in France and Germany caused him 

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to breast the storm of severe weather in a hard winter, 
and he took a severe cold, resulting in pneumonia and 
death, which was a distinct loss to his State and the 
Nation. 

William P. Borland was popular because he was cour- 
teous. He was gentlemanly in his bearing toward his fel- 
low men. His courage and intelligent work gave him the 
respect of his associates in Congress. He led a correct life, 
and was a man of high ideals and lived and loved to do 
the right. He was ambitious even beyond the office that 
he held, and if he had lived he would still have remained 
in the public eye and continued to be prominent in the 
affairs of the State and Nation. All who knew him inti- 
mately learned to love him for his many virtues; all who 
knew him and saw him in his daily work respected him 
for his high character and deeply regretted his early de- 
parture from life and its activities. We will miss him. He 
will live in the affections of those who knew him because 
of his courageous stand for what he believed to be right 
and good. Many notable speeches did he make in this 
great public body. He has gone into the great beyond. 
He has entered the gates of eternal life. He builded on 
earth a character that will remain a monument to bear 
evidence to his worth. His virtues and active efforts to 
help build for the right will be a sweet memory to his 
hosts of friends, who gave him support because they be- 
lieved in him. His place will be hard to fill. He gave the 
example of a correct life, of the duties of a public servant, 
and the confidence of those who gave him opportunity for 
public service will be a lasting monument to his great and 
unusual public career. 



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Address of Mr. Decker, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: I deem it an honor to stand in this Hall 
and pay a tribute to a departed friend and to a statesman 
of ability and courage. Mr. Borland, of Missouri, as we 
all know, was a man of the highest personal character. 
Upon his private life there was no stain. He was a worthy 
friend and a worthy citizen in private as well as public 
life. As a public man his work was greatly appreciated 
by the people of the State whom he had the honor in part 
to represent. I have not an extensive personal acquaint- 
ance in the great metropolis of Kansas City, where he 
lived, but I think that without using the language of ex- 
travagance I can say truthfully that I never met a man 
from Kansas City who did not have a word of praise for 
Representative William P. Borland. I have no doubt he 
had his personal and political opponents, but it was singu- 
lar and a matter of frequent remark by men who lived 
outside of Kansas City how highly our friend and de- 
parted colleague was esteemed by the people of his home 
city. 

He was a man of much more than the average ability. 
He was a scholar, and by that I do not mean that he was 
a product of the schools. He was a man of much reading, 
a man of much research, a man of much investigation. 
He was a lawyer, a lawyer of more than usual ability. 
He was one of those lawyers who realize that genius con- 
sists mostly in hard work, and William P. Borland was an 
industrious man. As a young man myself I wish to pay 
him a tribute for one thing. I wish to speak in behalf of 
the young lawyers, many of them in the State of Missouri, 
and pay to him not only a tribute, but also speak a word of 
gratitude and appreciation for the work which he did as 

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an educator in the law. Many a young man in Missouri 
who to-day stands high in the profession that most of us 
regard as a very high profession would not stand there 
to-day if it had not been for the untiring industry of our 
departed colleague and for his spirit of generosity and 
willingness to serve his fellow man. The Kansas City 
Law School has done much good in our State, and when I 
think of the Kansas City Law School I think of William 
P. Borland. As a public citizen, as a Representative, and 
as a statesman he took high rank. His chief character- 
istic, or, rather the two characteristics which most im- 
pressed me as I watched his career were industry and 
courage. He took an interest in all the legislation of this 
body. I do not mean that anybody's mind is of sufficient 
breadth and power fully to master every subject that 
comes before this body, but perhaps, on account of the 
varied interests of the great metropolis which Mr. Bor- 
land had the honor to represent, his duty as a Representa- 
tive made it necessary for him to be familiar with and to 
participate in many fields of legislation. The next quality 
was his quality of courage. He stood for cleanness in 
American politics. Kansas City is one of the greatest cities 
in the United States. I speak somewhat from personal 
knowledge because I was educated within a few miles 
from there. It is a clean city as cities go. It is a city where 
public virtue and civic spirit is high, and on the right side, 
on the clean side of every public question, William P. 
Borland, our departed colleague, was found. But he had 
his enemies. He catered to no pernicious influences. He 
never sacrificed his honor, he never sacrificed his man- 
hood for public preferment. He stood foursquare to all 
the world and dared to do what he thought was right, and 
dared to do what he conceived was his duty. How well 
he did I need not say, for you men know him as well as I. 
As a member of one of the greatest committees, perhaps 

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the greatest committee of this legislative body, he was a 
useful, valiant, and able member, and I was impressed in 
the last year with the toil and the foresight and the wis- 
dom which he displayed as a member of that committee in 
appropriating for the great needs of this titanic struggle 
through which our Nation has passed. 

I am not surprised that when the armistice was signed, 
when the war was over — the war to which he had de- 
voted so much of his time and of his heart interest and his 
intellect — he could not restrain himself from wanting to 
go across the sea and observe for himself as an American 
representative what the real situation was and what was 
the result of our efforts on the other side. I know that 
he was also prompted to go by his deep and abiding inter- 
est in all the brave boys who have won the battle for our 
country and for humanity and for the civilization of the 
world. 

And while upon this mission — this important mission — 
the summons came. Far from home — I will not say far 
from friends, because it is a matter of consolation to us 
to know that he was among those who cared for him 
well — when the end came he was among those who appre- 
ciated his worth and knew the things for which he stood. 
He was among Americans when he answered the last 
summons, and although those who were the nearest and 
dearest to him were far away at the end, I know that 
as he was brave in private life, as he was clean in private 
life, I know that as he was brave and courageous in public 
life he was not afraid to answer the last roll call. For 
I know that he could say with Tennyson : 



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Sunset and evening star, 

And one clear call for me I 
And may there be no moaning of the bar, 

When I put out to sea. 

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 

Too full for sound and foam. 
When that which drew from out the boundless deep 

Turns again home. 

Twilight and evening bell. 

And after that the dark! 
And may there be no sadness of farewell 

When I embark. 

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place 

The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face 

When I have crost the bar. 



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Address of Mr. Stafford, of Wisconsin 

Mr. Speaker: In 48 hours the Great War Congress will 
come to an end, and in this hour we set aside the pressing 
legislative business to pay our last tribute to one of the 
men who did much in this Chamber and in the committee 
to make possible the great victory that is about to be con- 
summated in a peace that will bring, it is hoped, all wars 
to an end for years and years. 

Mr. Borland had more than average ability, else he could 
not have achieved the distinction he attained. He was 
one of the recognized forces for good, truth, and right. He 
led many fights on this floor. His worth was recognized 
in the Committee on Appropriations when the chair- 
man imposed on him the high responsibility in the pres- 
ent Congress of chairmanship of the subcommittee on 
fortifications. 

Prior to this Congress he had not served on that sub- 
committee, but on the other important and leading sub- 
committees — the sundry civil, the District of Columbia, 
and the legislative. Being a stranger to the work, he im- 
mediately applied himself to the heavy task, as he did to 
every subject intrusted to him to take charge of, and after 
months of close study and laborious work he presented to 
the full committee, and later to this House, the fortifica- 
tion appropriation bill that carried the enormous amount 
of $5,600,000,000. His handling of that measure on the 
floor of this House showed the great work in which he 
had engaged to make himself master of the subject of 
fortifications. 

We were all greatly surprised when we learned that he 
had lost in the primary fight for nomination. We had 

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thought that his people would recognize his work and 
worth. If the people of his district had possessed the 
same estimate of him and the same high regard in which 
he was held here, I truly believe that he would have been 
renominated and would have continued for many years 
the useful service that he had given to the country and his 
district these many years past. His whole life seemed to 
have been in preparation for public service, so favorably 
equipped was he for its needs. Though I did not know 
him intimately, yet my personal estimate of him from his 
work in committee and on the floor was that he was pre- 
paring and was peculiarly qualified to be advanced to 
higher position in the other body, the Senate of the United 
States. 

It is sad to contemplate that in his prime his work should 
have ended so abruptly. If he had lived, the rich promise 
of the mid years of life would have been crowned with 
laurels of requited labor and service. The future his- 
torian, as he studies the annals of Congress, will agree that 
William P. Borland has left his impress upon the legisla- 
tion of the greatest Congress that ever met — the War Con- 
gress that is about to close. 



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Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 

Mr. Speaker : The news of the passing of our dear friend 
over yonder in France came to me as a very great 
shock and left me with a sense of profound sorrow and 
personal loss, for he was a rare soul, and I deem it a 
privilege to have been among those who were his friends. 

One of the most universal hopes of the human heart is 
that when the summons comes to " join the innumerable 
caravan that moves into the silent halls of death" we 
may be privileged to meet that summons at home, in the 
midst of family and friends, sustained and supported by 
the sympathy of our loved ones. Our friend was not 
granted this boon, and yet the messenger of death was 
not unkind to him, for it granted him the privilege of 
passing into the eternities from a land that has ceased 
to be foreign to our hearts and sympathies; a land near 
and dear to us through the heroic service of millions of 
our boys, consecrated by the supreme sacrifice of our 
best beloved; a land from whose hillsides and forests 
the souls of thousands of our brave boys went to their 
reward. Truly, if one may not pass to the great beyond 
at home, what better place from which to take our de- 
parture could there be than France, fair France, sanc- 
tified by the heroism and devotion of the brave and 
gallant of many lands, and among them the heroic sol- 
diers of the great Republic? 

Mr. Speaker, the eloquent young gentleman from Mis- 
souri [Mr. Decker] who has just spoken referred to two 
among the many splendid qualities of our departed 
friend — industry and courage. He was tremendously 

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industrious, but the two traits of his splendid character 
that most impressed me were courtesy and courage. How 
difficult it is in the clash of opinions on this floor, in tri- 
umph and more so in defeat, to keep one's temper, to 
maintain a judicial attitude, and to be uniformly cour- 
teous. How much all of us have at one time and another 
had to regret the word quickly and thoughtlessly spoken. 
It was a characteristic of our friend that, no matter how 
the tide of battle ran, he was calm and courteous, kindly 
and considerate. No man who has ever occupied a place 
on this floor has displayed more than he the quality of 
courage. I have come to the belief that the quality 
needed here above all other qualities and endowments 
is that of courage. We are drawn naturally to men with 
whom we agree, but as time goes on and our legislative 
labors continue we frequently become strongly attached 
to men with whom we often disagree, but whom we learn 
to value and appreciate as being sincere, conscientious, 
and courageous. 

Some day American constituencies will realize that the 
primary qualification for a Member of this body is en- 
lightened, unselfish moral courage. I sometimes think 
that within the boundaries of those things that we con- 
sider as being reasonable it does not matter so much 
what men's views are, do they but hold them unselfishly 
with conviction and maintain them with courage. Our 
friend, with a courtesy that never failed, combined a 
courage that never faltered. 

We do not know what lies beyond the veil. We do 
not know what the future may hold for any of us. But 
we do know this, that for the splendid, loyal, conscien- 
tious, helpful, courageous soul of our friend the future 
and the great beyond can hold no terrors and have 
naught but good. He was faithful, courteous, courageous. 



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conscientious always, and we do not despairingly mourn 
for him in his passing, much as we regret his loss, for 
every duty of his life was well done, and he has, we 
know, gone to a goodly reward. 

Mr. Igoe assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Mary- 
land [Mr. Linthicum] is recognized. 



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Address of Mr. Linthicum, of Maryland 

Mr. Speaker. I feel should I not say something of the 
worth of the Hon. William Patterson Borland I should be 
remiss in a duty which my State owes to his memory. 
There is a very dear and historical connecting link be- 
tween Mr. Borland and the State of Maryland, especially 
its metropolis, the city of Baltimore. 

During the heat of the Revolutionary War there came to 
our then town of Baltimore 20 gentlemen of large means, 
experience, and generosity. Among this number was one 
William Patterson, who became one of the bulwarks of 
our city and State. He it was, together with other public- 
spirited citizens, raised money to equip the troops, helped 
form the banks, and provide means and money to develop 
and deepen the harbor and channels of Baltimore. Many 
other things vitally necessary to the winning of the war 
and the prosperity of the city were largely due to him. 

In 1812 William Patterson's clipper ships plied the 
Seven Seas and did more to destroy English commerce 
during that war than any other one factor and hasten the 
conclusion of the war. It was Patterson who helped 
fortify North Point and Fort McHenry, where the English 
were repulsed and the Star-Spangled Banner was born. 
There was no citizen of our splendid Commonwealth who 
lived during those precarious times of two wars who did 
more for his adopted city and State than did William 
Patterson. 

William Patterson brought with him to this countrj^ his 
daughter Elizabeth, afterwards known as Betsy Patterson, 
and a nephew whom he raised as a foster son, one Thomas 
Borland. It was William Patterson Borland, a son of 
Thomas, who settled in Kansas City, Mo., and became the 
father of William Patterson Borland, our colleague, 
whom we knew so well. Betsy Patterson, the daughter, on 
the 24th of December, 1803, as published in the Federal 

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Gazette, was married by the Rev. Bishop Carroll to Jerome 
Bonaparte, the youngest brother of the first consul of the 
French Republic, afterwards the Great Napoleon, and 
from this union came the grandson, the former Secretary 
of the Navy, Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore. 

Thomas Borland and Betsy Patterson were brought up 
like brother and sister, and the splendid service of Wil- 
liam Patterson endeared them both to the city of Balti- 
more and our State. William Patterson Borland, our 
former colleague and friend, was a familiar figure in the 
House of Representatives. Always vigorous, always at- 
tentive to his duties, and as a constant attendant upon the 
sessions he became known and loved by each and every 
one of his colleagues. The ability with which he grasped 
the various subjects of legislation was remarkable. His 
tenacity was almost beyond his endurance. When I first 
came to this House, eight years ago, he looked well and 
strong and the picture of health and vigor, but his con- 
stant and untiring energy greatly sapped his constitution, 
so that before he left for France, where he died, he showed 
the fatigue of the long sessions we have had during the 
past years. 

A man of perseverance, good judgment, and a splendid 
speaker was our friend Mr. Borland. We shall miss him 
in the Halls of Legislation. Marylanders, whom he has 
addressed on several occasions, will grieve at his passing 
away. They will connect his work and his life with the 
history of his illustrious namesake, William Patterson, 
and his grandfather, Thomas Borland, of Maryland. 

On behalf of the people of Maryland, on behalf of the 
great city of Baltimore, I extend to those whom he has 
left behind our tenderest sympathy, our greatest admira- 
tion for the deceased, and our fervent wishes that his 
family may look upon Maryland second alone to the State 
of Missouri, which he so admirably represented. 

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Address of Mr. Good, of Iowa 

Mr. Speaker : Death has laid its hand very heavily upon 
the Sixty-fifth Congress. During this Congress 14 Mem- 
bers of the House and 10 Members of the Senate have 
already passed to the great beyond. In the death of Wil- 
liam P. Borland the House lost one of its most scholarly 
and industrious Members and the Nation was bereft of 
a statesman of high order. His work in Congress was not 
confined to his district alone, but was national in scope 
and permanent in character. 

It was my good fortune to become closely associated 
with Mr. Borland. We had many things in common. We 
were of the same age, graduated from the same university, 
entered the same Congress together, and for eight years 
labored together upon the Committee on Appropriations. 
In this association I came to know him intimately. I 
admired him for his great industry, his ripe scholarship, 
and, above all, his straightforward and manly character. 
In my experience I have rarely met a man in whom there 
were so happily combined those rare qualities of scholar- 
ship, of fidelity to duty, of industry, and courage that 
were combined in him. 

His greatest work in Congress was in the preparation of 
the fortifications bill during the last session. That bill was 
prepared while we were at war and carried more than 
$6,000,000,000. Its preparation involved not only a study 
of our seacoast defenses in the United States, the Panama 
Canal, Hawaiian Islands, and the Philippine Islands, but 
it also involved the greater problem of supplying the 
American Expeditionary Forces in France with field artil- 
lery and field-artiller>' ammunition. This, in turn, com- 
pelled a thorough study of the productive capacity of 

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America to furnish arms and ammunition necessary to 
win the war. It involved an examination of existing 
facilities and plants, the building of new plants, and the 
enlargement of plants already constructed. In the prepa- 
ration of that bill it was necessary to study not alone the 
practical questions of supplying materiel, but also the 
scientific problems involved in their production. The 
work of Mr. Borland in the preparation of that measure 
was the admiration and delight of his associates. Neither 
the magnitude of the bill nor the many minute details 
involved in its preparation deterred him in the least from 
the most searching and thorough investigation required 
for the solution of the problems which it involved. When 
that great measure was considered in the House it was 
found to have been so thoroughly prepared that scarcely 
an amendment to it was adopted on the floor of the House. 

I recall with great pleasure the manner in which he 
approached his work in the preparation of that bill. 
Weeks before the estimates were taken up by the sub- 
committee every member was furnished with a list of 
books and periodicals having a special bearing upon the 
production of the materiel which would be embraced 
within the bill. We were furnished by him with scien- 
tific references to the production of nitrates, liquid chlo- 
rine, picric acid, toluol, and other necessary ingredients 
of ammunition and high explosives, for which there was a 
great demand and of which there was a shortage in the 
United States. The preparation of that measure, there- 
fore, involved not only a knowledge of science, but a cool 
and deliberate judgment of a high order, and Mr. Bor- 
land's work in its preparation is a monument to his states- 
manship more enduring than granite. 

Mr. Borland was a very industrious Member of the 
House. He called his subcommittee together early in the 
morning, and its work kept them in session ofttimes until 

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the late hours of night. He shrank from no duty, but ap- 
proached his work with genuine enthusiasm, and I have 
no doubt that his early demise was in some measure due 
to the unusual strain upon his time and strength which 
the consideration and preparation of the great bill which 
had been intrusted to his care exacted. 

His work is ended. It was well and patriotically per- 
formed. The great State of Missouri, which gave him to 
Congress, will miss him. His friends and associates here, 
where he performed his greatest public service, will miss 
his counsel and advice. But the greatest personal loss 
will be felt by his family. He was essentially a home man, 
and when not engaged in his public duties he sought the 
companionship of home. Surrounded by a loving and in- 
teresting family, he spent his leisure hours with its mem- 
bers. And so to-day our tenderest sympathy goes out to 
the bereaved widow and family left to mourn his loss. To 
them, as to us, he will be remembered as a man of high 
ideals, of pure heart, pure mind, and pure speech. Those 
who knew him best loved him most. 



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Address of Mr. Ferris, of Oklahoma 

Mr. Speaker : I knew the late William P. Borland inti- 
mately during the last 20 years of his life. He was the 
dean of the Kansas City Law School when I graduated 
from that institution. I knew him while he was teacher 
and I scholar; I knew him here in Congress as a Member 
of Congress. 

I served with him throughout his service here; I remem- 
ber very well when he first came to this House. I had 
preceded him by two years in the Congress of the United 
States, and when I met him down in the well of the House 
yonder he said to me, " I used to teach you. Now you can 
teach me." I merely mention that fact to show the 
breadth of character and the generous disposition that he 
had. 

As we see the lives of our friends ebbing away, as our 
friends pass to that unknown, we are always impressed 
with the mystery that enshrouds it and surrounds it, and 
we are again impressed, it seems to me, with the thought 
that death always comes too soon, and in the lives of men 
that are so full of usefulness, so full of true worth, so full 
of generous and unstinted endeavor, the loss which we 
feel and the loss which we know the world suffers becomes 
more acute and is brought home to us with greater force. 

Our late colleague had no enemies here and he had none 
at home. I used to live in Kansas City, Mo., myself. I 
was born in that State. I have known him intimately for 
20 years. The State loses a great man, the Nation loses a 
great man, the Congress loses a great man. But it seems 
to me, after all, that when death approaches, as it must 
approach us all, it is worth something to his friends to 
know, and it will be worth something for his family to 

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know, that while here he left nothing but favorable im- 
pressions behind and nothing but real and true service to 
the Congress, to Missouri, to the Nation, and the teeming 
millions that make up the Nation. 

I was proud to be a student of his school. I was proud 
to serve with him here. I was proud to have known him. 
I was proud to have known of his clean, honorable career. 
I am proud to utter this word concerning his life and 
character. "We may all mourn his passing. 



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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: In this Congress the Missouri delegation 
in House and Senate has suffered an unusual percentage 
of losses. Senator Stone, Dr. Meeker, and William P. 
Borland were all called to their last accounts. Senator 
Stone was 68 years old, Meeker was in the very prime of 
his life, and Borland had not passed his meridian. Sena- 
tor Stone had nearly lived out the psalmist's allotment of 
threescore years and ten. There was not a more robust 
man in the House than Dr. Meeker. Borland was not very 
much behind him in that regard; a little older, not so 
heavy, but a man of remarkably good health. If I had 
been called on to pick out 25 men in the House who in all 
human probability would be living a quarter of a century 
hence, I would have picked both Meeker and Borland. 
Mr. Borland was a good-looking man, a pleasant man, a 
good debater, a tiptop stump speaker, an incorrigible 
optimist. He was a lawyer of high standing, author of 
three or four law books, dean of a law school, and had 
served in Congress 10 years. He represented one of the 
finest congressional districts in America. I do not believe 
that there is a finer body of land under the sun than Jack- 
son County, Mo., of which Kansas City — young, robust, 
growing, ambitious — is the metropolis. If a circle were 
drawn with a radius of 400 miles with Kansas City as the 
center, there would be more good land within that circle 
than any circle of the same size on the habitable globe. 
Borland was intensely proud of his district, as he had a 
right to be. He served the people thereof faithfully and 
well. He was also a popular lecturer. I do not know it 



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for a fact, but I believe part of his trip to Europe, on which 
he died, was not only intended for the purpose of getting 
first-hand information about our soldiers over there but 
also to collect material for a lecture about things con- 
nected therewith. 

He waged some notable battles while in Congress. 
Sometimes he won and sometimes he lost, as happens to 
most Members who take an active part in the proceed- 
ings. He was always on the side of the people. 

We were all much grieved, because of our friendship for 
him, to hear of his untimely death while still in the very 
prime of his splendid powers, and we were also greatly 
shocked because when he left his native country he was 
the very picture of health and seemed destined for a long 
life. I have often wondered why some people useful to 
their kind and their country are cut off in the prime of 
life, or even before they reach their meridian, while others 
live to great old age. 

When one of our friends departs we involuntarily re- 
peat the question that Job propounded thousands of years 
ago, " If a man die, shall he live again? " It is one of the 
most interesting questions about which man ever reasoned. 
I have no sort of doubt that the question was old when 
Job propounded it. I undertook once to run back to its 
source the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. It 
extends back to the very twilight of recorded history, and 
the chances are it was debated and talked about and 
hoped for before history began, and it will still be dis- 
cussed and talked about and hoped for by the very latest 
of our descendants. 

It is a great pity that Lazarus was not interviewed when 
he came to life. He undoubtedly could have thrown a 
flood of light on the much-debated subject. 



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The ancients reasoned about it as clearly and compre- 
hensively as we do. A great many people think that 
Christ originated the doctrine of the immortality of the 
soul, but it has been the doctrine of the human race, it 
seems, from the beginning. Socrates reasoned it out that 
when he saw the wicked flourish in this world and the good 
in unfortunate circumstances, that there must be a here- 
after where these wrongs would be righted. When he 
was forced to drink the fatal hemlock, he said to his 
judges, " I go; you remain. "Which is the happier fate? " 
To my mind the doctrine of the resurrection, which runs 
like a thread of gold through all the New Testament 
Scriptures, is of most consoling character. In the human 
heart there is an unceasing yearning to meet again and 
greet again those to whom we were nearly connected in 
this life. The sweetest words that ever fell on human 
ears were those of Christ : " I am the resurrection and the 
life," and it has sustained men and women in all the 
difficulties and cruelties of this world. 

Among other characteristics, Mr. Borland was very 
active in his religious duties. His actions were correct, 
his language was chaste, and in this respect he was a 
model citizen. Defeat came to him as it comes to most 
everybody else in the long run, but he was so young, so 
vigorous, so well equipped, that I have no sort of doubt 
that if he had lived and had chosen to return to public 
life that his vacation would have been short. 

In the House we valued him highly while living, and we 
mourn him sincerely in his grave. 

Everything seems out of joint. Nature seems to have 
made a sad botch of the world. 

It has been customary to rail at religion for the great 
catastrophe which in late years has come upon half of the 
world. They find fault and pick flaws, and many sorely 
tried and despairing souls have felt constrained to curse 

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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 



God and die. Yet over all the wreck of matter and crash 
of worlds we may still say, " The Lord God omnipotent 
reigneth." 

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 

Yet hope will dream 

And faith will trust 

That somehow, somewhere, meet we must. 

Great religious revivals follow great wars frequently, 
and the signs of the times indicate that a universal revival 
is now impending. 



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Address of Mr. Hamlin, of New Jersey 

Mr. Speaker: The news of the death of our colleague, 
William P. Borland, came as a distinct shock to every 
one of us. It serves to remind us again of the fact that 
" in the midst of life there is death." At best, he has only 
preceded us a little while. 

Life is a great mystery. We can not understand why 
one so splendidly equipped to serve his fellows should be 
cut down in the very prime of life and others less fitted 
to fight life's battles are allowed to remain. We can only 
say " The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed 
be the name of the Lord." 

I believe that about 14 of our colleagues have answered 
the final summons during this present Congress. This 
should remind us of what Job said: " Man that is born of 
woman is of few days and full of trouble, he cometh forth 
like a flower and is cut down." * * * «* jjig bounds are 
appointed and he can not pass." 

Another has spoken of the uncertainty of life in these 
words, " Go to now, ye that say, to-day, or to-morrow we 
will go into such a city and continue there a year, and 
buy and sell and get gain; whereas, ye know not what shall 
be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a 
vapor that appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth 
away." 

The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only one that 
has answered the centuries-old question : " If a man die, 
shall he live again?" Job's faith in God enabled him to 
really answer his own question. He says : " There is hope 
of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and 
that the tender branch thereof will not cease, though the 
root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof 

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die in the ground; yet, through the scent of water, it will 
bud and bring forth boughs like a plant." Clearly proph- 
esying the resurrection of thousands of years afterwards, 
Paul, descanting upon the same vital question, said : " But 
some man will say, how are the dead raised up? And 
with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which 
thou sowest is not quickened except it die; and that which 
thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but 
bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or some other grain, 
but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him and to 
every seed his own body." * * * "There are also 
celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the 
celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another." 
* * * " It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorrup- 
tion. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is 
sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." 

We, therefore, must believe in a future existence, and, 
by the same token, must believe in this life we must 
prepare for this future existence. 

I have no doubt but that this was the simple faith of our 
departed friend. May we all have an abiding faith in the 
efficacy of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, so that when we 
come to "pass over" we may know that we shall live 
again. 



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Address of Mr. Byrns, of Tennessee 

Mr. Speaker: Again the flag upon the Capitol has hung 
at half-mast and the hearts of the Members of the House 
have been made sad by the news of the death of one of 
their colleagues. Again the unrelenting hand of death 
has beckoned to one of our Members, and he has left us 
for that bourne from which no traveler ever returns. 
The death of Hon. William P. Borland forcibly reminds 
us that in the midst of life we are in death. It was but a 
very few weeks ago that in the best of health and spirits 
and with the promise of a long and useful life before him, 
he departed for Europe in order to personally visit the 
western battle front in France and to investigate condi- 
tions, particularly with reference to the boys from his own 
city and section who had given their lives in behalf of their 
country. Within two weeks after he landed in Europe 
he became ill, and the House was inexpressibly shocked 
and grieved to learn that he had passed away on February 
20, 1919, near Goblenz, Germany. 

Mr. Borland and I entered Congress together in 1909 and 
two years later were both chosen to serve on the Com- 
mittee on Appropriations. Since that time we were 
closely associated in the work of the committee and a 
cordial friendship existed between us. I had occasion, 
therefore, possibly as much as any Member of the House, 
to observe the industry, courage, and intelligence which 
marked his whole career as a member of the committee 
and of Congress. 

There is no committee in the House which requires a 
greater degree of industry on the part of its membership 
than the Committee on Appropriations. The appropria- 
tions carried are so varied and cover such a wide range of 
subjects that one must have industry and diligently devote 

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himself to the study of the various subjects presented and 
have the courage to say " No " if he hopes to make himself 
a useful member of the committee. Mr. Borland pos- 
sessed both of these qualifications to a very high degree. 
He never failed to do his duty, and the knowledge which 
he had acquired by close investigation and application 
was always most helpful to the committee and to the 
House in consideration of appropriation bills. 

His courage was of a very high order. He never de- 
serted a principle in order to build up his personal politi- 
cal fortunes. He acted always from the highest motives 
and with regard to what he believed to be the best interest 
of the country. If he erred at times— and there are none 
of us who have not— then it was an error honestly made. 
He never voted for or against an appropriation because of 
any possible effect his vote might have upon his own 
political future. In addition to his work upon the com- 
mittee he found time to devote to the study of all the 
important legislation that has come before Congress, and 
the Congressional Record gives evidence of the careful 
and intelligent consideration he had given to most of the 
important matters which have come before Congress dur- 
ing his term of ofiice. He served his country faithfully 
and efficiently, and has left behind him an enviable record 
for close application and attention to duty and an earnest 
devotion to his country and the people who had honored 
him and whom he served with signal fidelity and ability. 

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Borland was greatly admired and re- 
spected by the members of the Committee on Appropria- 
tions, with whom he had served for eight years, and as an 
evidence of their affectionate regard and high estimate of 
his ability and value as a legislator I desire to make a part 
of my remarks the resolutions which were adopted by the 
committee at its first meeting after news was received of 
his death. These resolutions are as follows : 

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The committee has heard with the most profound sorrow of the 
death of the Hon. William P. Borland, of the State of Missouri, 
which occurred near Coblenz, Germany, on February 20, 1919. 
Mr. Borland first entered Congress on March 4, 1909, and two 
years later was chosen a member of the Committee on Appropria- 
tions, upon which he served until his death with signal ability, 
unimpeachable integrity, unquestioned fidelity, tireless energy, 
and a genuine devotion to duty, which was characteristic of his 
entire career in Congress. 

Possibly the greatest service rendered by Mr. Borland as a 
member of the committee, and also as a Member of Congress, was 
as chairman of the subcommittee on fortifications in the prepara- 
tion of the fortification bill for the fiscal year 1919, carrying more 
than $8,000,000,000 in appropriations and authorizations made 
necessary by the war. He worked unceasingly and tirelessly to 
familiarize himself with the many technical details of that bill, 
and the hearings which were conducted as a preliminary to its 
preparation evidenced his hard work, his unceasing efforts, and 
his intelligent and thorough grasp of all the facts necessary for 
its proper preparation. 

In all of his public service he was actuated by the highest and 
purest motives and by the earnest desire to faithfully serve the 
country and those who had chosen him to represent them in the 
Halls of Congress. 

In January, 1919, he went to Europe for the purpose of making 
an inspection tour of the battle lines on the western front and to 
investigate conditions as regards American soldiers and hospitals. 
While on this tour of inspection he was stricken with bronchial 
penumonia and died far from home and native land: Therefore 
be it 

Resolved by the committee, That the death of Mr. Borland is a 
distinct personal loss to his colleagues on the committee, and that 
the committee has lost one of its most useful members, the Con- 
gress a capable, careful, and eflScient legislator, and the country 
a faithful and devoted public servant. Be it further 

Resolved, That we tender to his widow and family our most 
sincere sympathy on account of their great loss. And that this 
memorial be spread upon the journal and a copy furnished by the 
clerk of the committee to his bereaved widow. 



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Address of Mr. Dyer, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker : I desire to add a word to what has already 
been so well said concerning the life and public service 
of my late colleague, the Hon. William P. Borland. He 
was a faithful and efficient Member of this House for a 
number of years. He possessed great ability and was an 
indefatigable worker. While I did not agree with him in 
all positions he has taken upon public questions, I recog- 
nize his honesty and uprightness of purpose. I mourn 
with my other colleagues and with the people of my great 
State in the loss that has come to us in his recent death. 
To his widow and loved ones I extend my sincere sym- 
pathy. The death of our colleague is but another evi- 
dence of the fact that — 

All that tread the globe are but a handful of 
The tribes that slumber in its bosom. 

In the passing of this splendid representative of the 
people it should cause us all to endeavor the greater to do 
our full part in giving to the people of the United States 
the best service that is possible while we are yet here. As 
has been so well said : 

Show us the truth and the pathway of duty, 

Help us to lift up our standard sublime 
Until earth is restored to its order and beauty, 

Lost in the shadowless morning of time. 
Teach us to sow the seed of many a noble deed, 

Make us determined, undaunted, and strong, 
Armed with the sword of right, dauntless amid the fight, 

Help us to level the bulwarks of wrong. 



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Address of Mr. Igoe, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker : Mr. Borland was the third member of the 
Missouri delegation in the House and Senate in this Con- 
gress to pass away. When I received word that he was 
dead it seemed that there must be some mistake, because 
but a few weeks ago he was here in our midst busily 
engaged in the work that he loved so well and enjoying, 
apparently, the best of health. He had decided to go to 
France to see for himself the battle fields upon which our 
victorious armies had fought, to study at first hand the 
condition of our forces, and to become better acquainted 
with the great problems that have followed the ending of 
this the greatest war of all time. His illness while so 
engaged was unknown to us, and consequently the news 
that he was dead came as a great surprise to all of his 
colleagues in the House. 

As a Representative in Congress for 10 j^ears he had 
taken a prominent part in framing the important legisla- 
tion enacted during that period, and there were few men 
here who had a more comprehensive knowledge of the 
activities of the Government. As a member of the Appro- 
priations Committee he had rendered splendid service in 
studying the needs of the various departments, and with 
the other members of that great committee had labored 
industriously, especially during the war, in providing 
properly for carrying on the necessary work of these de- 
partments. The members of that committee are not fre- 
quently given credit for their valuable service to the coun- 
try, and yet there is no more important committee in the 
House. Upon their work depends largely the success of 
the departments, and in their hands rests largely the 
economical administration of these same departments. 

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The members of that committee have a difficult and labori- 
ous task, and Mr. Borland brought to his work ability and 
industry unexcelled. 

His service here was marked by an active participation 
in the proceedings of the House, and he was unusually well 
informed upon public questions. In his State he was well 
known as a public speaker, and in his city took an active 
part in municipal affairs. 

Mr. Speaker, no Member of this House was more devoted 
to his work, and the record he made here will always be a 
monument to his industry, energy, and ability. 

Tuesday, March 4, 1919. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Young, one of its 
clerks, announced that the Vice President, in pursuance of 
the resolution of the Senate of February 25, 1919, had 
appointed Mr. Reed, of Missouri; Mr. Spencer, of Missouri; 
Mr. Gore, of Oklahoma; Mr. Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Mr. 
Kenyon, of Iowa; Mr. Thomas, of Colorado; Mr. Sherman, 
of Illinois; Mr. Curtis, of Kansas; Mr. Kirby, of Arkansas; 
and Mr. Nugent, of Idaho, as the committee on the part of 
the Senate to attend the funeral of the Hon. William P. 
Borland, late a Representative from the State of Missouri. 



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Tuesday, February 25, 1919. 

Mr. Reed. Mr. President, after consultation with the 
Senator in charge of the bill, as he has no objection to the 
resolution being offered at this time, I am going to ask 
unanimous consent to claim the indulgence of the Senate. 
First, I ask that the resolutions of the House of Repre- 
sentatives be laid before the Senate. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Robinson in the chair). 
The Chair lays before the Senate resolutions from the 
House of Representatives, which will be read. 

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : 

In the House of Representatives, 

February 22, 1919. 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. William P. Borland, a Representative from the 
State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 20 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I offer the following resolutions 
and ask for their adoption. 



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The resolutions (S. Res. 468) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
announcement of the death of Hon. William P. Borland, late a 
Representative from the State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That a committee of 10 Senators be appointed by the 
Vice President, to join such committee as may be appointed on 
the part of the House of Representatives, to attend the funeral of 
the deceased. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives. 

Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I move, out of respect for the 
memory of the late Representative Borland, that the 
Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 7 
o'clock and 5 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
to-morrow, Wednesday, February 26, 1919, at 12 o'clock 
meridian. 

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